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Diana Ro

21:17 - 21:46

“the next point in our recommendation that we talked about was that for the municipality representatives of the mayor's office, Parks and Rec, Merrill Field, the Air Force Association, and possibly also the someone from the city council to get together to start discussing a way forward with the memorial as far as upkeep, maintenance”
Speaker
Diana Ro
Community
Alaska News
Location
Merrill Field
Captured at
September 14, 2026

From the transcript

Make it with every— after signs that led to the robot. And that might be something that they could even start— the city could start now planning on that because that might— I don't know if it takes time or not. That's what I thought too. Yeah. The The one thing that'd be good with this is because our announcement, the next point in our recommendation that we talked about was that for the municipality representatives of the mayor's office, Parks and Rec, Merrill Field, the Air Force Association, and possibly also the someone from the city council to get together to start discussing a way forward with the memorial as far as upkeep, maintenance, and, you know, everything else.

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